December 1998

The man who once headed the nation's most violent Ku Klux Klan organization admitted he thwarted justice in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers and said he didn't mind going to prison because a fellow Klansman got away with murder.

1963 killings of 4 girls in church is reopened. Robert Chambliss was being tried for scheming to plant dynamite beneath the 16th Street Baptist Church 14 years earlier. Four girls had been preparing for a special youth service when they were blown apart by a bomb.